Turkish students arrested for LGBTQ+ artwork
Four students in Turkey have been arrested for creating artwork which depicted rainbow symbols alongside a sacred Islamic site and displaying it at a protest.
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Turkish students facing three years imprisonment for celebrating Pride
18 Turkish students and one member of staff from Ankara’s Middle East Technical University are due to go on trial for organising an LGBTQ+ Pride sit-in.
Gay character row leads to cancellation of Turkish Netflix drama
Netflix cancels Turkish drama ‘If Only’ after the country’s government refused to grant it a licence on the grounds that the show featured an openly gay character.
Turkey and Greece suffer earthquake in tourist hot spots
An earthquake registering 6.7 magnitude on the richter scale has occurred in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Turkey and Greece in the Dodecanese region in the early hours of this morning, July 21. It was a shallow quake just 6.2 miles below the seabed – off the south-western coastal city of Marmari
First umbrella LGBTI organisation to fight homophobia in Turkey
A new umbrella organisation has been established in Turkey to encourage LGBTI websites, groups and organisations to work together to fight homophobia and transphobia in the Islamic country that straddles Europe and Asia. TURKEY LGBTI UNION has been in existence for just two months and was created to